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Show was elected She was vice chair of the Salt Lake County Republican Party. serving a total of six years in that position. In 1955 she was supervisory clerk of the Utah Senate and state Conference Chair for the National Republican rWomen's Conference which was held in Washington, D.C. re-elected twice, she was elected to the House of Representatives where she of both Patronage and Rules Committees and member of Industry, Political Subdivisions and Public Health. She was also appointed to be a member of the Governors Commi t tee on Ci vi I Rights, and the Ford Foundations Conference on Women held at In 1958 she served on a 3 member committee for Bozeman, Montana. legislative review of Utah colleges regarding their physical In 1957 was Chair requirements. In 1959 Rep. Abbott decided to run for the Salt Lake County Clerk. but she did She was attend the Republican defeated, regional convention in Hawaii. her appointed as supervisory clerk of the Utah senate and al so to a three term to the Defense Advisory year Committee on Women in the Service. She became the national chair of that organization. 1959 saw again, of Governor Clyde's Campaign In 1960 she was appointed co-chair as that was also elected committee and delegate to the year in ConventionCommittee of the Platform Republican National Chicago. She also served on the Foreign Policy Subcommittee. Later that year she became assistant to the State Personnel Director. Some months her friend position as later she left to start her own employment agency with Joyce Fletcher. In 1962, she sold her share and took a executive secretary with an international association. activities included being secretary for a year on the Board; chair of Adult Education in PTA; President of Holladay elementary: Gray Lady with the American Red Cross; 2 terms as President and I term as Secretary of the Salt Lake Council of Relief the Society Holladay Ward Hostess; Delphian Society; Teacher; member of the Utah Legislative Council, Salt Lake Council of Women; Hqlladay Women's study club and Salt Lake Women's Dee's other Utah Ballet Republican club. She served in all offices of the Utah OWLs, twice co-chair for the 1973 National Convention in was President. She Salt Lake City. as Beginning in 19£6 she organized, edited, did the layout and typing of her mother's history of West Jordan. In 1976 she wrote the Women Legislators of utah book from 1896-1976. She then published her own book Days of Our Fathers, a history of early Utah as experienced by not book another written has She yet her polygamous family. Dee is a renowned published on the Anasazi Indians of Mesa Verde. author of Utah, and we have her to thank for starting this endeavor of keeping a record of Utah Woman Legislators. 139 |
